Ensign

June 1981

Volume 11 Number 6

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Sacrifice
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• Time for Sunday
  What We Do with All That Time Cathy P. Anderegg
  What the New Schedule Has Done for Our Family Nancy Hoch
  Keeping Sunday Holy Debra S. Hadfield and Helen Mar Williamson

• Reflections on the Law of Moses: Old Testament Apostasy in Context
  Gib Kocherhans

• The Langheinrich Legacy: Record-Gathering in Post-War Germany
  Kahlile Mehr

• Who Was Grandpa?
  Thomas E. Daniels

• Blending Family Styles: Making a Second Marriage Work
  Francine Christensen

• Sharing Sarah: Our Down’s Syndrome Baby
  Mary Jane Hawkes

• Taking the Church Anywhere
  Marvin K. Gardner

• Home Is Where the Hearty Is
  Heidi E. Vriens

• I’ll Help Teach Yours, You Help Teach Mine
  Jan Izatt and Karla Croshaw

• Seeking “the Good, the Pure, the Elevating”: A Short History of Mormon Fiction, Part 1
  Richard H. Cracroft

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  End Result Donna Evleth
  Slow Bloomer DeLynn Decker
  Earthlife Dianne Dibb Forbis
  Friends Gina Berg

• I Have a Question
  Leland H. Gentry
  Edward J. Brandt

• Sharing

• Random Sampler

• Comment

• Mirthright: The Stuffed Suit
  Erik Eden

• The Best Thing We’ve Done

• Mormon Journal
  Prayer in Moonlight Lorraine F. Day
  Divine Law of the Tithe Louise A. Kelly
  Cast Your Bread … Carma N. Cutler
  Tornado Kathy Wilcox

• Speaking Today: Prayer—Try Again
  Bishop H. Burke Peterson

• News of the Church

On the cover: Illustrations by Phyllis Luch depict appropriate family activities on the Sabbath. See page 6.

Inside front cover: Vision of the Boy Samuel, by W. H. Margetson, circa 1910. Watercolor, 28″ by 20″; courtesy Church Historical Department.

Inside back cover: The Handcart Pioneers at Devil’s Gate, Wyoming, by Barna Meeker. Twentieth century primitive painting, oil on cardboard, 35″ by 71″. Courtesy Church Historical Department.